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A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 4/5 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 1/5 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 4/5 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 1/5 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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Solution

The restaurant divided 4/5 of a kilogram of butter into dishes, each containing 1/5 of a kilogram. To find out how many dishes they filled, you simply divide the total amount of butter by the amount in each dish.

So, 4/5 ÷ 1/5 = 4.

Therefore, they filled 4 butter dishes.

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